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Warren's 'jobs bill' a political snowjob

The Lowell Sun

Updated:
10/10/2012 06:37:15 AM EDT

Just as you cannot always judge a book by its cover, you can not always judge a piece of legislation by its title. Just calling something a "jobs bill" does not necessarily make it one, nor does it guarantee it contains anything of value.

The "jobs bill" that Elizabeth Warren is using to paint Sen. Scott Brown as a pure partisan was never meant to be passed. Laden with tens of billions of dollars of tax hikes and political payoffs to Big Labor, the Obama administration designed the bill to be rejected on a party-line vote. Thus it could be used as a political weapon, just as Warren is dutifully doing.

This same tactic was used by the Obama administration with regard to the budget. The Democrat-controlled Senate, led by Harry Reid, has failed to pass a budget during the entire Obama term. That is nearly four years of shirking its primary responsibility. The Republican-led House has offered up several budget proposals in this time, but Harry Reid has blocked debate on every one of them.

In order to provide political cover to Reid and the Democrats, Obama floated his own budget proposals, again designed to be rejected on a party-line vote, to be used as political weapons. But in a pair of rookie mistakes, Obama went so far overboard that both proposals were so unrealistic that he could not get even a single Democrat to vote for them. Both proposals were rejected unanimously.

Regarding the so-called "jobs bill," my guess is that Sen.

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Brown actually took the time to read and analyze the bill, then rejected it on its lack of merit. Unlike the way, for example, Nancy Pelosi considered the ObamaCare bill: "We have to pass it in order to see what is in it."

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